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Spotlight: Humboldt-School Students and Teachers

26 October 2012

The Latin and English teachers and students at the Humboldt-School in Berlin got together to fight hunger and brush up on their Latin - all in one click. Together they created over 2,000 Latin questions to launch the new Latin subject on Freerice.

The project was led by Latin and Political Science teacher, Jens Augner. When we asked what motivated him, he replied: “I am a passionate Freericer. I thought that we could raise a lot more rice by using Freerice for learning Latin vocabulary.”

But Jens has done much more than create a Latin subject. His World Study groups helped to build a school in Katete, Zambia. Jens and his students managed to visit the school, and saw WFP distributing aid at the community centre. And since then, WFP has been lucky enough to have the support of Jens.

Thank you Jens and your team for being such an inspiration! Gratias ago vos!

Freerice is maintained by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide. To find out more go to WFP.org

I recently created a group called the rice core. If people could join that would be great. The one thing is that in this group YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE BOTS. They slow down the system and disenfranchise hard workers.

I recently created a group called the rice core. If people could join that would be great. The one thing is that in this group YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE BOTS. They slow down the system and disenfranchise hard workers.

Great, I've been hoping you'd have Latin as a subject for some time. However, some of these questions need debugging - cum certainly can mean with, but this is marked incorrect!

In fact in general, maybe Freerice should have a button to press when someone thinks a question is buggy? Someone at Freerice could look at it when some suitably large number of people have flagged the same question, maybe.

Sounds cool! My concern would be, just how useful is Latin in the modern era? The only country in the world who's official language is Latin is the vatican. Still, I like that Freerice is continuing to add subjects.

Also, you may have seen this on earlier comments, but anyone is welcome to join my group. It is called the Rice Core.

Hello, I am so pleased you all decided to jump-start the Latin subject as I have waited a very long time for this subject on Free Rice. I am a Latin teacher in the United States and am very excited to get my students active in this subject on a large scale. I would like to pass along a suggestion as you edit and add to the subject. You may wish to utilize Whitaker's Words, a program on the Internet, for definitions. This well used and well edited site gives the meaning of almost all common Latin words in a very useful and organized way. Congratulations again and thank you so much for your hard work.